Christmas Carol Quotations

"Hard and sharp as flint"
Narrator (Stave I)

"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population"
Scrooge (Stave I)

"Bah! Humbug"
Scrooge

"Solitary as an Oyster"
Narrator (Stave I)

"Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
Scrooge (Stave I)

"He carried his own low temperature around with him"
Narrator (Stave I)

"I wear the chain I forged in life"
Ghost of Marley (Stave I)

"Every idiot who goes around with Merry Xmas on their lips... should be buried with a stake of holly through his heart"
Scrooge (Stave I)

"I will honour Christmas in my heart. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."
Scrooge (Stave V)

"Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew."
Narrator (Stave V)

"I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man."
Scrooge (Stave V)

"I have come to dinner. Will you let me in Fred?"
Scrooge (Stave V)

"You may be an undigested bit of beef"
Ghost of Marley (Stave I)

"Mankind was my business!"
Ghost of Marley (Stave I)

"On the very day of the funeral, you solemnised it with an undoubted bargain"
Ghost of Marley (Stave I)

"Therefore I am about to raise your salary!"
Scrooge (Stave V)

"God bless us everyone"
Tiny Tim

"Mr Scrooge. I'd give him a piece of my mind. An odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man"
Mrs Cratchit

"Another Idol has displaced me... a golden one"
Belle

"What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough."
Fred

"Scrooge's offences carry their own punishment. Who suffers? Himself!"
Fred

"Would you so soon put out... the light I give?"
Ghost of Christmas Past (Stave II)

"A small matter to make these folks so full of gratitude"
Ghost of Christmas Past (Stave II)

"To a poor one most. Because it needs it most"
Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave III)

"They are Man's. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware for I see that written which is Doom."
Ghost of Christmas Present (Stave III)

"It was shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed its head, its face, its form and left nothing visible except one outstretched hand"
Ghost of Christmas Future (Stave IV)

"He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead, ha, ha!"
"I am sure none of us will forget Tiny Tim"
Ghost of Christmas Future (Stave IV)

"Bless his heart; it's Fezziwig alive again!"
Scrooge (Stave II)

"I have come to bring you home dear brother... home, home, home!"
Fan (Stave II)

"Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man I suppose."
"He'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck by Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself"
Mrs Dilber/The Laundress/Joe (Stave IV)